Monday, April 07, 2014

For
the U.S., Jerusalem Has No Connection with Israel

By Julio
Severo

A recent Jerusalem Post article notes,
“Since the founding of Israel, U.S. presidents have declined to state a
position on the status of Jerusalem.” For the U.S. government and its leftist
Christian presidents, Jerusalem has no country. Yet, why are even U.S.
conservative presidents included in this negative picture?

For God’s Word,
those born in Jerusalem are always born in Israel. But why does the United
States, a nation founded on Christian principles and capable of providing great
leadership to the world, choose to ignore Israel’s special place in God’s eye?

As a Brazilian,
I would expect the U.S. to set a good example, because many of the U.S.
presidents have been Christians and some of them have stated they are friends
of Israel.

If God used
powerful rulers in the ancient world who did not know Him, what about powerful
U.S. Christian presidents who claim to know God? God said about Persian emperor
Cyrus (c. 585 B.C. — c. 529 B.C.) in the past:

“Thus says the
LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue
nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him
that gates may not be closed: ‘I will go before you and level the exalted
places, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of
iron, I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret
places, that you may know that it is I, the LORD, the God of Israel, who call
you by your name. For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen, I
call you by your name, I name you, though
you do not know me.’” (Isaiah 45:1-4 ESV)

Why are U.S.
Christian presidents doing less than Cyrus? What hinders them from doing as
much or more than a pagan Persian emperor?

American culture
has been massively imitated around the world.If America led the way in serving Israel, other nations would certainly
follow suit. In fact, if God’s Word is correct, it is strongly in America’s
interest to set an example of service to Israel:

“For the nation
and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; those nations shall be
utterly laid waste.” (Isaiah 60:12 ESV)

Ancient empires
served Israel.Why should it be different
with America, whose Pilgrim Founders wanted Hebrew to be the official language
of the new American nation? America, which is a modern empire, and Brazil,
which is a nation, exist not to be served by Israel, but to serve Israel.

America is a
strange ally of Israel.She is a nation
that does not want to serve Israel. She is a nation that does not recognize
Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. She gives Israel limited military assistance,
and at the same time she heavily arms and supports Saudi Arabia and other
Islamic dictatorships that would not hesitate to destroy the Jews and their
Promised Land.

How can America
be an ally of Israel and its enemies? How can an ally work against the security
interests of its friend? Last year, the world was shocked to learn that NSA
spies on people in every nation, even Israel. No American has been imprisoned
for such massive, unnecessary spying, allegedly to monitor Muslim terrorists —
when current CIA director John Brennan is, according to WND.com, an American
converted to Islam in Saudi Arabia.

While NSA goes
unpunished for spying for suspicious political and financial interests,
Jonathan Pollard has spent 27 years of an unprecedented life sentence in a U.S.
federal prison for passing classified information to Israel, an ally of the
United States. The typical sentence for this offense is 2 to 4 years. No one
else in the history of the United States has ever received a life sentence for
this offense.

Can you imagine
a Saudi spy receiving a life sentence in the U.S.? But Pollard, who passed
security information about Muslim nations to Israel, was just fulfilling a role
that America herself was called to do: serve Israel and its security interests.

Increasingly,
America has served the interests of Muslim dictatorships, especially Saudi
Arabia. In fact, America now has a Marxist, pro-abortion, pro-sodomy president
with a Muslim name.Barack Hussein Obama
is a mere reflection of America’s tilt toward Saudi Arabia and the other Muslim
dictatorships.

How has America
been rewarded for her service to the Muslim world?September 11, 2001.Even though most of the Muslim terrorists
were Saudis, America did not invade Saudi Arabia.

Of course, the
U.S. has an early Christian tradition and a significant evangelical population
that would not hesitate to lead America to serve Israel. But they are in
conflict with a modern haughty America that serves her own political and
financial ambitions, which prefers just to use Israel for her interests.

Even good
conservative U.S. presidents, as George W. Bush, had a foreign policy that,
although not so radical as Clinton and other leftist American presidents, still
refused to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and even pushed Israel to
recognize Palestinian occupation of the Promised Land.

Bush’s State
Secretary, Condoleezza Rice, was the main responsible for the Bush policies
toward Israel. Considering that she was a daughter and granddaughter of
Presbyterian ministers, could replacement theology have influenced her
policies? Replacement theology, accepted by many Presbyterians, teaches that
God is finished with the Jews and their Promised Land. Also, as a “conservative”
and evangelical, Rice sees herself as reluctantly or mildly pro-abortion
and pro-gay “marriage,”
and in a 2008 visit to Brazil, she was supportive of African witchcraft. With such “conservatives,” who need liberals? With
such “conservatives,” how can America serve Israel?

If she had the
political will, America could easily recognize all of the Promised Land as a
Jewish state.She has the political and
military power to enforce such will, and no nation can resist her power and
decisions.

Also, it is a
very small thing for a powerful nation like the U.S., now the only superpower
in the world, to consider people who are born in Jerusalem as having been born
in Israel.

But the small
thing is a very thorny issue for the superpower and its Christian presidents.
By U.S. law, people who were born in Jerusalem cannot list Israel as their
birthplace. That is, they have a birth city, but not birth country.

As a Brazilian, I
would expect such behavior from many nations, including Brazil, which now has a
socialist president who has no real respect for Israel. Sadly, even before
socialism took control of the Brazilian government, Brazilian presidents had
never officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

A superficial
Christianity makes an individual and a nation fail to take seriously what God
says in His Word about Israel and Jerusalem.

Still, I would
expect much more from the U.S., especially its more conservative Christian
presidents throughout its history. I would expect from them respect for the
real Ruler in the world and His eternal will for Jerusalem and Israel.

In fact, His
Word promises blessings to nations that bless Israel. Brazil has no interest in
such blessings. But why has America, with her many Christian presidents, never
had courage to tackle this small thing and receive a huge blessing?

Why do U.S.
Christian presidents refuse to recognize what God recognizes?

It’s one thing
for less Christian nations or Muslim countries to say that Jerusalem has no
connection with Israel. It is normal, for example, for Saudi Arabia and other
pagan nations to reject the legitimate Jewish connections of Jerusalem.It’s a completely different thing for
America, with her strong Christian tradition and Protestant presidents, to say
the same thing as their pagan counterparts do.

Where are the
real American Christians who will do what God wants for Jerusalem and Israel?
At least, where is a pagan Cyrus to do what “Christian” rulers in America are
not doing?

May God raise
someone reading these words to be president, whether of Brazil or the U.S., and
return Jerusalem to its rightful owner: Israel.

If Brazil does
it under a Christian president, powerful blessings certainly will follow, even
a position of superpower, because God, who overthrows big nations refusing His
will, also is powerful to raise other nations to do His will, especially to
help Israel.

May Jerusalem,
which God established as the eternal capital of Israel, be recognized for what
it is.

“Pray for the
peace of Jerusalem! “May they be secure who love you!” (Psalms 122:6 ESV)

What hinders
America and her conservative Christian presidents from recognizing Jerusalem,
serve Israel and be blessed?

I wonder if the
issue were recognizing Mecca as capital of Saudi Arabia, would it have been
left unsolved as Jerusalem has been? No, it would have been solved many decades
ago, even if its Jewish neighbor had opposed it.

I bet that Saudi
Arabia, the big Muslim ally of the U.S., does not want Jerusalem recognized as
the capital of Israel.